Wherever consumer sentiment goes, consumer spending usually goes too. They're like buddies that do everything together. Consumer sentiment wants a hair cut, its buddy consumer spending does too. But ...

Long leading indicators remain neutral, with corporate profits improving from negative to neutral and real money supply metrics turning positive. Short leading indicators softened to neutral this week ...

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston had an interesting piece last month about the resilience of consumer spending, which is ~70% of GDP in the US. They looked at credit card spending data for low, ...

Americans spent $2.32 billion in May at movie theaters, 166.1% higher than in January's pre-vax economy.

Hard data shows that the US consumer remains strong despite downbeat sentiment, BofA says. Confidence has slipped amid macro uncertainty, but US shoppers will weather the bad vibes. Air travel, card ...

A car-buying frenzy, stoked by tariff fears, drove US consumer spending in March to its biggest monthly gain in more than two years, new data showed Wednesday. Consumer spending leapt 0.7% from ...